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GLASS WORKING MACHINE Filed Sept. 28, 192' 18 Sheets-Sheet 18 Patented Feb. 9, 1932 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE BENJAMIN T. BRADLEY, DAVID IRVIN DU 3018, AND BERNARD H. K003, OF MILLVILLE,

NEW JERSEY, AND FRANQK H. LOBB, T WHITALL-TATUH COMPANY, OF NEW JERSEY OF RIDLEY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNORS MILLVILLE, NEW JERSEY, A CORPORATION OF GLASS WORKING MACHINE Application filed September 28, 1927. Serial No. 222,461.

The present invention relates broadly to the art or" glass working machines, and more particularly to machines of the character contemplated for the production of so-called wide mouthed or pressed ware as distinguished from narrow neck ware or paste mold ware. More especially, the invention is directed toward the production of a pressed article, such, for example, as an insulator, in which it is desirable to produce a portion or portions having threads thereon.

The invention contemplates the provision ot' a machine comprising a plurality of molds movable successively to difierent stations, the term station being hereinafter used in its generic sense as definitive either of a fixed position such as ordinarily obtains in a machine of the intermittently operable type, or a station of greater or less extent in which a certain operation takes place while the machine is moving, as in the case of a continuously rotating machine.

Specifically, the invention contemplates a movable mold carrier having a plurality of molds of similar construction thereon, which molds are adapted to pass successively to a charging station at which a gather of glass delivered thereto in any desired manner. Thereafter the operation of the machine brings the charged mold to a pressing station, at which station the glass is subjected to a pressing and forming operation under the influence of a press head and press plunger, preterably including a screw-out peg. The continued operation of the machine is then effective for carrying the mold with the pressed and formed article therein to a plunger removal station, or screw-out station, at which the plunger or screw-out peg is moved out of cooperative relation to the glass. Further operation of the machine brings the lucid with the formed article to a take-out station at which the formed article is removed from the mold.

However, the invention is not limited in its broader aspects to the details of construction herein shown, or to the relationship of the parts described, but is preferably embodied in an intermittently moving machine having a plurality of molds of identical construction,

each mold having its individual glass formlng elements cooperating therewith, whereby the complete machine embodies, in effect, a plurality of units, each of which units is opcrable for the complete formation of a finished article. The units are combined in such mannor that the machine may be expeditiously operated at a speed to give quantity production under conditions such that an article when removed from the mold is cooled and set to such an extent as to be inherently self-supporting.

In the accompanying drawings we have shown, for purposes of illustration only and not by way of limitation, a preferred embodiment of the present invention, it being understood that c anges in the construction, character and relation of the parts, as well as in the manner of operation thereof, may be made without departing either from the spirit of the present invention or the scope of our broader claims.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a diagrammatic drawing showing the dilferent steps designated by letters a to g-the complete cycle of making a glass insulator;

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the assem bled machine looking at it from the side of the charging station;

Figure 3 is a partial section on the line IIIIII of Figure Figure 4 is a sectional plan view of the base taken under the ball race;

Figure 5 is a sectional plan View taken above the mold opening and closing cam;

Figure 6 is a sectional plan view taken above the mold head raising and lowering cam;

Figure 7 is a view taken on line VII-VII of Figure 8;

Figure 8 is a side elevation of Figure 7 artially in section, but showing the mold lead in pressing position over the mold;

Figure 9 is a section taken on the line IXIX of Figure 8;

Figure 10 is a section taken on the line XX of Figure 8; I

Figure 11 is a front elevation of the pressing head mechanism;

Figure 12 is a section through the press head mechanism taken on line XII-XII of Fi re 11;

igure 13 is a sectional plan view of screwout mechanism taken on line XIII-XIII of Figure 14;

Figure 14 is a sectional view of the screwout mechanism;

Figure 15 is a section taken on the line XVXV of Figure 1 1.;

Figure 16 is a view, partly in section, of

the take-out;

Figure 17 is a view taken on the line XV -XVI][ of Figure 16 showing take-out finger at position before moving into the mold;

Figure 18 is a view similar to Figure 17 but take-out finger and accompanying parts are in the position of depositing the insulator on a conveyor;

Figure 19 is a plan view of the table rotating cushioning mechanism;

Figure 20 is a side elevation, partly in section, of Figure 19;

Figure 21 is a section taken on the line XXI-XXI of Figure 19;

Figure 22 is an enlarged portion of the base showing indexing valve and mechanism pertaining thereto;

Figure 23 is a cross-section through indexing lever and indexing valve;

Figure 24 is a view showing gob cutting shears in section and a plan view of the shear and machine timing and control mechanism;

Figure 25 is complete piping diagram of the machine;

Figure 26 is a side elevation of a finished insulator;

Fi ure 27 is a section XX IIXXVII of Figure 7;

Figure 28 is a cross-section through the screw-out chuck;

Figures 29, 30 and 31 are detail views, partly in section and partly broken away, illustrating a modified form of screw-out mechanism;

Figures 32 and 33 are detail views of one form of conveyor mechanism; and,

Figure 34 is a longitudinal sectional detail view of the primary air valve.

For a general understanding of the present invention, reference may first be had to Figures 1 and 5 of the drawings, Figure 5 showing, in plan view with appropriate labels, the successive movements of certain portions of the apparatus, and Figure 1 showing diaon line grammatically a mold with its cooperating forming element in successive positions, the figure concluding with an illustration of one means of efiecting in an automatic manner the removal of a formed article.

By reference to Figure 5 of the drawings, it will be noted that each of the molds comprises relatively movable sections 2 and 3 adapted to be moved into closed position to provide a forming cavity therein, and to open position to permit removal of a finished article. In Figure 1 the mold sections are shown open, and a forming element comprising a mold head 4 is illustrated in raised position. This figure illustrates the relative position of the parts of a mold which has just passed the take-out station where a finished article has been removed therefrom. Each mold head assembly includes a combined pressing and forming plunger, preferably in the form of a screw-out peg, adapted to form the internal threads on the article, as hereinafter more fully described.

In Figure 1 the parts are shown in the relative position which they occupy at the charging station. At this station a feeding or pouring guide 5 is in cooperative relation with the mold sections which at this time are closed to provide the desired forming cavity. A suitable gather or charge of glass G supplied by a punty or feeder is shown in position to drop through the guide 5 into the mold cavity, the mold head 4 still occupying its raised position.

In Fi ure 1 the parts are shown in the relative position which they occupy at the pressing station, the mold head being in cooperative engagement with the mold sections, and a press head 6 being shown in lowered position in engagement with the mold head.

In Figure 1 the parts are illustrated in the position which they occupy at the plunger removal or screw-out station, a plunger or peg screw-out shaft being illustrated in cooperative relation with the mold head, while Figures 1 1 and 1* show succeedingpositions of the parts terminating with them at the take-out station.

In Figure 1 a take-out mechanism 8 effective for engaging a finished article A in the mold, removing it therefrom and inverting it to a suitable ofi'take conveyor C, is shown.

As shown in Figure 3, the machine generally comprises a base 9 having mounted thereon a center column 10. Pedestals 11 carried by the base support a ball race 12. A. mold table 13 rotates on' the ball race and around the center column 10. Immediately above the mold table 13 and secured to the center column 10 is a mold opening and closing cam 14. A ring 15 is rotatably mounted on the column 10 and supports radial mold head supporting arms 16. A mold headraising and lowering cam 17 is secured to the column above the ring 15. Still further up on the center column 10 is a pair of spaced supports 18 and a single intermediate support 19. The supports 18 are for the plunger removal or screw-out mechanism, while the support 19 is for the press head. The press head is additionally supported from a bracket 20 on the base 9 by uprights 21 extending thererom. 

